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Will Electric Carmaker Bring More than Jobs to Elkhart Indiana?
The recession hit Elkhart, Ind., especially hard. In fact, the town became somewhat of a poster child of the recession, thanks to a news series produced by MSNBC. But a glimmer of hope emerged for Elkhart on Tuesday, when the Norwegian electric car...
The Emerging Sustainable Stock Market
So where does a stock investor look for value in a landscape dominated by the Federal Reserve, Peak Everything, Unsustainable Debt and Unaffordable Health Care? The emerging answer is to invest in companies that are building “smart answers̶...
Four 2010 Issues Investors Cannot Ignore
Investing in the 21st Century stock market has not produced sustained equity valuation growth. The stock market has stuttered through three increasingly painful bubbles of high prices followed by collapses into valleys of even lower prices. Investors...
A New Era for Sustainability Begins January 1
Imagine walking into a Walmart to buy a bag of potato chips and seeing not only how two competing bags of chips compare on price but also how they compare in terms of green house gas (GHG) emissions. Then, imagine the ramifications if both bags of c...
San Diego to Copenhagen: It’s a Small World After All
By Lee Barken, IT practice leader at Haskell & White, LLP It’s a balmy 67 degrees in San Diego and I’m back home at my local coffee shop, sipping Chai Tea Latte. A short 24 hours ago, I was in the snow and bitter cold of Copenhagen, Denmark...
An Open Letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently told reporters that we should caution against blaming biofuels for higher food prices, stating that the food versus fuel debate is based on the assumption that where we are today remains static relative...
Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Heart Shaped Country
By Amina Horozic You’re from where? I was almost twelve years old when I came to the US in 1994. Since then whenever I mention that I am from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, I am always inundated with all sorts of unusual questions. Occasiona...
California Small Businesses A-OK Under AB32
The Union of Concerned Scientists released a report today (full disclosure- they pay my rent, which is why I got a jump on writing about this great report) outlining the impact of California’s groundbreaking global warming legislation on small ...
The Dragon in Africa: How Chinese Investment Changes The Game
By David Abraham Al-Jazeera recently posted a video highlighting an investment surge in the tiny central African nation of Equatorial Guinea. The country is the third largest exporter of petroleum and gas–a fact that is not immediately obviou...
Study Shows Property Values Not Harmed by Wind Farms
A full scale wind farm is not a subtle piece of landscaping, and many folks express concern over losing their view, their rural character, or *gasp* their property values. As the number of communities considering wind energy development grows, the ...
B Corps Win Healthy Tax Break in Landmark Law
B Lab, the force behind a new business sector designation—called the B Corporation—which recognizes companies that meet a set of social, environmental and institutional benchmarks for sustainability, is facing a Herculean effort. The work wonR...
Studies Measure Climate Change’s Impact on Public Health
Just in time for the opening of the United National Climate Change conference in Copenhagen next week, the London-based medical journal The Lancet has published the findings of a number of studies that examine the links between climate change and pub...
End of the Beginning: Cleantech Group Offers Ten Predictions for 2010
The Cleantech Group, the guys who literally invented the word “cleantech” (and own the trademark — so watch out) today released “Ten Predictions for 2010: Trends to Watch For in Global Cleantech in the Year Ahead,” the i...
Black Friday? Buy Nothing Day? How About Buy Something Responsible Day?
The idea of waking up at the crack of dawn the day after Thanksgiving to go shopping for trinkets among hordes of what seem like crazed zombies strikes me as a horrible kind of torture. Nonetheless, millions of Americans consider “Black Friday...
Doing a World of Good for Fair Trade Artisans
The term “fair trade handicrafts” summons images of wicker baskets and hand-dyed sarongs. But the business side of the fair trade marketplace is getting a little less old-world, thanks to World of Good, an organization that connects artis...
Innovators Honored for Applying Technology To Brighten People’s Lives
Boats outfitted with solar panels have become “floating classrooms” for children in the low-lying regions of Bangladesh, where floods have destroyed crops, schools, roads and infrastructure. They are among the more than 20 million people who beca...
Chrysler Pulling Plug on EV Development? Maybe Not
It wasn’t all that long ago that Chrysler Corp. pocketed more than $12.5 billion in government bailout funds to avoid a bankruptcy filing, promising on the way to the bank to build more fuel efficient cars and produce electric vehicles by 2011. Abo...
Guiding Principles for the New Economy
As the Green Business Conference wraps up its second and final day before giving way to the world’s largest green event (San Francisco’s Green Festival, also put on by Green America), Bryan Welch, Publisher and Editorial Director of Ogden...
Woody Tasch, President of Slow Money, on What Happens After Stimulus Money is Gone
Woody Tasch, author of Slow Money, and President and Chairman of the Slow Money Alliance, spoke on day 2 of the Green America Green Business Conference. He had a tough act to follow, getting up on stage right after Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins of Green Fo...
Solar Energy Investment Summit: The $100 Billion Conference
Solar panels now only account for approximately 40 percent of the cost of a solar power system. And most technology studies project the cost of panels to continue its drop as a percentage of plant cost with continued advancements in technology and ma...
Cap-and-Trade: The Real Deal from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce may actually have a better idea than a cap-and-trade bill for cutting emissions. And, contrary to popular opinion, they do recognize climate change and the need for clean tech development. This past week I interviewed Da...
European Lawmakers To Give Free Carbon Credits to Heavy Industry
The EU, that bastion of environmental common sense, is giving away its carbon credits. For free. To some of their biggest polluters. Reuters reports that European Union lawmakers have approved a list of heavy industries, including metals, textiles, b...
Economics Built on Beauty and Community
Right before I boarded a plane recently, I noticed a Body Shop in the terminal next to the gate. The Body Shop has been a leading business that incorporates social and environmental values into its operations. It was founded by the late Anita Roddick...
Environmental Defense Fund: Reaching out to the Private Equity Industry
By Kirk Hourdajian, Project Manager, Corporate Partnerships Program, Environmental Defense Fund In a post I wrote on EDF’s Innovation Exchange blog last week, I identified some of the challenges and opportunities we are addressing in our work with ...
Cash Cows: Vermont Dairy Farm Converts Cattle Manure into Electricity
A Vermont dairy farm is producing something other than milk. Earlier this month, state officials were on hand to visit Vermont’s newest methane facility. Westminster Farms Inc., along with Green Mountain Power (GMP), have been working togethe...
